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The Colombian Exchange (Transportation of 4 major things to New world…
The Colombian Exchange
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Animals
Animals imported to America included: pigs, cows and horses
Pigs literally ate anything so very good and cheap food source. For example: Herdanda de Soto bought 13 pigs in and in three years later 700 were bread. This happened after he died
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Disease
WAR
Many leaders (kings, queens, head of war) were dying due to small pox which caused the E and NA to rebel against each other
STARVATION
Weren’t enough people left to grow crops to feed the living so people started to die due to malnutrition
DEATH
When Europeans arrived the one major response was death, not sure exact numbers but between 50%-90% of population died off
Small Pox was seen as the main villain but other diseases such as: measles, mumps, typhus, chicken pox also had an effect b/c none of these had been exposed to the Native Americans before.
Plants
E brought over some crops: wheat and grapes, but American plants changed many lives. Chilies, corn and tomatoes, potatoes, avocados, peanuts, and blueberries were there.
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